psalmist

Like the biblical psalmist says, “We have escaped like a bird from the fowler’s snare; the snare has been broken, and we have escaped.”

“Put not your trust in princes,” says the psalmist.

But it would be a mistake to dismiss this writer as only a psalmist of birdsong and singing creek and the gentle, patient wisdom of postal workers.

The Hymn to the Aten has some parallels in imagery and concept to Psalm 104, and a number of scholars have theorised that the Israelite psalmists might have been influenced by Akhenaten’s poem.

There are no depictions of the slaying of Goliath and only sly hints of David as psalmist.